New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Bengaluru: In the not-so-distant past, like business complexes around the world, International Tech Park Bangalore (ITPB), a sprawling 69-acre campus in the city's Whitefield suburb, had gone quiet as the covid pandemic saw employers shift to work-from-home, and later, to hybrid work.

But on a Friday afternoon last month, ITPB, which is dotted with all kinds of commercial buildings, including a mall, a premium hotel, recreational facilities, and the offices of the world's biggest multinationals, was teeming with people. Some of the older edifices in the 30-year-old park are now getting a facelift. And in one corner, a massive parking lot has been turned into a construction site, where nearly 2.4 million sq. ft of ne...